REVIEW and MAKE SUGGESTIONS: Hope Alive Sponsorship Program

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Hope Alive Uganda has an existing child sponsorship program which is described on their website and located here:

http://www.hopealiveuganda.org

For this task, we are requesting that volunteers review our sponsorship program and help us identify any areas that could be improved. We would like suggestions for how to make our sponsorship program stronger and more attractive to prospective sponsors of the children identified.

What suggestions or questions do you have for us to consider? Are there other areas that you can identify that might be included in a sponsorship fee which we could use as a means of supporting the children?

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Hi Eddy! saw the site and it looks very good - particularly liked the rotating pictures on the Home page, but I did not see how much the sponsorship costs per month. We at Kyomya are charging $30 per month, but perhaps you need more - as you said, pots and bedding with their parents gone, and probably more for food.
Let me know how you are doing (I can't sponsor anymore right now - I've got my hands full in Kyomya with 17!)
Regards,

--
Ginger :)

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Thanks for your reply.
For every child in a boarding section, we spend $20 per months for feeding on each child and $67 dollars on fees. We have 50 children whom we are sponsoring in different schools. That then tallies to $4350 for the total scholarship with pots, bedding exclusive, since these vary in costs day after day.
As for now, we have managed to raise money for 25 children (tuition).
If you need more information, please feel free to ask, I'll be waiting to hear from you.
Best regards,
Eddy

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Eddy - that's a Very big overhead - almost $4,500 per year for 50 children - but that's only $90 per child! that is almost Nothing in America - I would like to think that schools in America - or churches would be happy to help in a big way. I keep trying to think of new ways to raise money - because all of us in Uganda are up against the same problem. As hard as the villagers work, there's that one small element missing - seed money. What church are you connected to - and have you asked for help? (I'm sure you have.)
May God continue to bless you and your work.
--
Ginger :)

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Hello Ellswoth,
Thanks for your message,
Well, as for now we managed to do that.
I am attached to achurch here in our village thuough of course i have never asked for their assistance, you know the nature of our people i terms of poverty, but it would be a good idea to talk to them.
As for now, i will wish you all th best.
Regards,
Eddy.

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Hi Eddy,
Thanks to see your effort in trying to enable those children go to school. Please instill in the minds of those children a participatory approach, i.e engage them in IGA activities though it may not give much money but overtime it will be of benefit but also depending on their ages.
thanks

--
aoa2

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Hi, perhaps approach/partner with companies. In my country large organisations are cutting costs on (as an example) Christmas Cards and providing the money to orphans. this usually amounts to hundreds to thousands of dollars. I suggest proposing cost cutting ideas to companies and suggesting they donate those funds for a good cause. This would require a complete marketing plan however if done right I'm sure you can find enough companies to sponsor the children. Also I suggest you partner with event managers and ask them to collect money to sponsor a child. just 50 events and you are done.

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Hi,
I was interested to see your site. As a sponsor of children through different organizations I have spent a lot of time going through all of the websites. Your site has a really good feel to it - I'm not sure how to explain it. You have a lot of great photos, and some of the phrases used like help a hand & Glasses? I can see! have an authentic touch that most other sponsorship sites lack. I am looking forward to reading the rest of it!

My suggestion is that you should look into search engine optimizations for your site. Your meta tags are written for search engines to pull up your site, but only when people type - joomla, Joomla, or JoomlaCommunity. Ask your website designer or host to update these tags to include key words like "sponsorship, child sponsorship, Uganda sponsorship, Africa, health, uganda education, Uganda empowerment, donate, donations, non profit" etc.

This way your website will come up in the results when people search any of those keywords. Hope this advice helps.

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Thanks for the advice! Will look into this today. If you need an more information about our actual or the sponsorship program, let us know. We can use help with the sponsorship program!

Esther

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